Re: CP1252 under Unix

From: Valeriy E. Ushakov (uwe@ptc.spbu.ru)
Date: Mon Mar 27 2000 - 11:42:30 EST


On Mon, Mar 27, 2000 at 05:33:53AM -0800, Eugene B. Byrganov wrote:

> Also font has other encodes: iso8859-15, iso8859-5, windows-1251, koi8-1

*sigh*

I wonder when will this 'koi8-1' stupidity die out...

There's no such thing as koi8-1, this chimera was accidentally created
in early days by people tweaking XLFD names of iso8859-1 fonts without
much thinking and much understaning of XLFD.

Please, kill it, kill it!

PS: Please, visit <http://www.sensi.org/~alec/locale/> (in Russian)
and consider subscribing to the 'locale' mailing list (in Russian as
well).

SY, Uwe

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